OSX terminal — follow mouse cursor

for those old school unix people out there who are use to X and WindowMaker.. I just discovered a trick that allows you to change window focus on mouse over, just like in windowmaker. And it doesn’t bring the window fully to the foreground either.. sweet.

sudo -u root in a terminal, and then run this command.

defaults write com.apple.terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES

restart terminal, and it’s just like the old days.